Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/10/25
Life goes on.
I’m fortunate to have friends and colleagues and clients all over the world. Many of them are understandably gobsmacked at the political machinations in the US at the moment. Frankly, a lot of Americans are flummoxed. Eggs are the new crypto, and the market is on an amusement park roller coaster.
But life goes on.
We landed in Argentina yesterday morning, where the inflation rate declined from 118% in December to 84% in January. That is not a misprint. It has been so bad that the restaurant business took off as people dined out nightly with lavish meals which was a better investment than any security of bank. Of course, the restauranteurs have to take their profits home in a wheel barrow. (There are 1,000 pesos to the dollar as I write this, and changing $300 US to have money for tips and small purchases generated a pile of bills too thick to carry in my wallet.)
But life goes on.
I’ve been to Greece, where service was excellent and the tourist trade thriving despite an unemployment rate of nearly 30% at times, and worse for those under 30 years of age. People were unfailingly polite and generous—and always happy.
So life goes on.
I can vote, but I can’t control who wins. I can root for my favorite team but can’t influence the outcome of the game. I can plan a great trip only to run into traffic jams and lost luggage which are no fault of mine. We lose dogs to an all too brief lifespan, but we treasure their memories and move on from the grief.
Life goes on.
Life goes on no matter what, so we might as well make the best of it. That means controlling and influencing what you can and not beating yourself up or becoming morose over what you can’t.
There should have been an eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt neither fear nor dread what one can’t control, but rather apply thine energy to productive influence and results with what one can.
Life goes on. Amen.
I don't have any control over what actually happens except for that I have full control over my will for myself, my intention, and why I'm there. That's all that matters. —SZA
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. —Brian Tracy
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. —Mario Andretti
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